A-Z Color Game

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Eucalyptus

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Flax

 

Flax or Flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax. The first recorded use of

flax as a color name in English was in 1915, but "flaxen" had been used to describe hair color in David

Copperfield, by Charles Dickens in 1849: Mr. Omer's granddaughter, Minnie, is described as "a pretty little

girl with long, flaxen, curling hair

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Guppie Green

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Heliotrope

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Isabelline

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June Bud

 

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Kelly Green

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Livid

 

Livid is a medium bluish-gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a

dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English

expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622.

 

There is a range of colors called livid colors that combine the colors blue and gray. Some of these colors

are shown below.

 

Livid (blue-gray) is the opposite concept from brown. Brown colors are mainly dark orange and dark red

colors—warm colors on the warm color side of the color wheel, while blue-gray (livid) colors are mainly

dark blue and dark azure colors—colors on the opposite side of the color wheel—cool colors on the cool

color side of the color wheel.

 

Alternate names are blue-gray (American English) or blue-grey (British English), which was a name

introduced by Crayola for a crayon color used from 1958 to 1990. Thus, the normalized color coordinates

for livid and blue-gray are identical.

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Mustard

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Navajo White

Navajo White is an orangish white color, or pastel yellow orange, and derives its name from its similarity

to the background color of the Navajo Nation flag. The name "Navajo White" is usually only used when

referring to paint. Despite its name, the color is not a shade of white, but rather of yellow or of orange.

 

From the 1970s to the 1990s it was, along with the color bone, one of the standard interior paint colors

used in many tract homes in the United States and especially apartment complexes. Like the color bone

it does not easily show stains from cigarette smoke or fingerprints. In recent years it has lost favor to other shades of off-white, grey, and pastel colors.

 

In 1989, the color "Navajo white" was included in the X11 color list. As such, it became and continues to

be (2019) part of the web colors.

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Olive

 

Olive is a dark yellowish-green color, like that of unripe or green olives.

 

As a color word in the English language, it appears in late Middle English.

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Paris Green

Paris green (copper(II) acetate triarsenite or copper(II) acetoarsenite) is an arsenic-based organic pigment.

 

As a green pigment it is also known as Schweinfurt green, emerald or Vienna green. It is a highly toxic

emerald-green crystalline powder that has been used as a rodenticide and insecticide, and also as a pigment.

 

It was manufactured in 1814 to be a pigment to make a vibrant green paint, and was used by many notable

painters in the 19th century.

 

The color of Paris green is said to range from a pale blue green when very finely ground, to a deeper green

when coarsely ground. Due to the presence of arsenic, the pigment is extremely toxic and in paintings, the

color can degrade quickly.

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Quince Yellow

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Rust

Rust is an orange-brown color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color in stage

lighting and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a

standard tungsten light source.

 

The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.

 

Origin: Rust is named after the resulting phenomenon of the oxidation of iron. The word

'rust' finds its etymological origins in the Proto-Germanic word rusta, which translates to

"redness." The word is closely related to the term "ruddy," which also refers to a reddish

coloring in an object.

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Sandstorm